Trump extends the US-Iran ceasefire, initially meant to expire Wednesday, indefinitely. Some thoughts:

This image is a screenshot featuring a statement attributed to Donald J. Trump regarding his relationship with Apple CEO Tim Cook. The document is heavily color-coded with highlighter-style overlays. Highlighter Legend: Green: Praise for Tim Cook Red: Belittling other people Pink: Self-glorification Mauve: Writing own name in all caps Content Summary: The text describes an interaction where Tim Cook allegedly called Trump during his presidency to ask for help with a "large problem" that "only I, as President, could fix." The Narrative: Trump claims he bypassed expensive consultants (whom he disparages in red) to solve Cook's problem "quickly and effectively." The Relationship: He describes a "nice relationship" involving "3 or 4 BIG HELPS" and praises Cook as an "amazing manager and leader" (highlighted in green). The Tone: Much of the text is highlighted in pink, specifically sections where Trump speaks about his own importance, such as Cook calling to "kiss my ass" or the assertion that consultants would have failed where he succeeded. The Signature: The final line, "President DONALD J. TRUMP," is highlighted in grey, corresponding to the "Writing own name in all caps" category.

OK, now I'm obsessing.

This is at least 28 more seconds than I wanted to spend on this image.

"Today, it feels to me like Apple needs a product guy at the helm again. Someone with the itch to spearhead the creation of new things. ... And John Ternus, more than anyone else at the company, seems like that person."

Perfectly reasonable. Perfectly normal. What’s a billion worth these days anyway? An hour of Claude Code tokens?

As you’d expect, but made pretty explicit in Apple’s own press release, Tim Cook will continue on in his role as “Tim Apple”. So John Ternus doesn’t have to be “John Apple”.

Ok. So why didn’t it?

I probably shouldn't point out what else Omar and Greene have in common because some folks on this app won't like it, but it rhymes with shmanti-shmemitism.

A thread full of examples of why the "you just call any antizionism antisemitic" canard makes my vision go red

You have to be a hardcore online politics junkie (no offense to, uh, everyone on here) to follow what all @atrupar.com shares, and *even that* is still just an abridged sample of the highlights. He is properly manic such that it's like a DDOS attack on anybody's capacity to pay attention to it all.

It was just 24 days between when Zuck went on Rogan and talked about how "never again" would he suppress info based on gov't demands (misrepresenting those demands) and when he texted top gov't employee Elon Musk to say "we're all set up to take down info you want removed."

I wrote about it here.

I think this is one of the most critical “lessons” that Trump and his regime learned. Which is, when it is time to resign in disgrace, just don’t. It’s a superpower that allows them to survive any crisis or scandal. It reduces the opposition Dems and normie GOP sputtering.

Public officials should live in abject terror of someone doing a deeply reported story accusing them of world-historic, spectacular corruption. But the Trump admin’s reaction is more along the lines of “Okay, so what? What are you losers going to do about it?”

But instead they just don’t care. They don’t really bother to push back. They don’t worry how it will be perceived. They know they can do anything, no matter how bad, and their insensate numbskull supporters will never question it, nor will the opposition or media ever truly push the issue.

One thing that’s really getting me about this is if you’re the Defense Secretary, and a newspaper suggests you’re trading against the lives of soldiers, you should be absolutely terrified - desperate to refute the charges and to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Major Deployment Of Rickety E-3 Sentry Fleet For Iran Crisis Highlights Worrisome Gaps The shrunken E-3 fleet isn't getting any younger, and a replacement is still far off while demand for its services would be far greater in the Pacific.

Yeah we’re definitely bombing the shit out of Iran soon

4chan.gov

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

Notice how the Fox News chyron screams "Dem Hoax" while Brendan Carr admits he would have gone after CBS if Colbert aired that interview with James Talarico.

Finally, a place where I can watch Colbert interviews of political candidates

Will this portal also work to ensure access to banned content in Russia and China, or is it only about undermining Western Europe?

‘Complete nonstarter’: Administration allies say judicial warrants a red line for White House in DHS funding talks as shutdown looms The seeming stalemate sets up a clash between the Trump administration and Democrats ahead of a Friday night deadline.

"[the 4th Amendment] is dead on arrival," according to three sources close to the administration and a GOP strategist

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

it is kinda funny that the least interesting and creative phase of colbert's career has ended up seeing him most reliably face government pressure to shut up

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

ppl should stop using ai-generated diagrams. you know i’m not anti-ai but they’re just not good at this yet!

the problem is that diagrams have a very specific purpose: they’re meant to compress understanding into few key bits. ai vomits out poor approximations that aren’t conceptually compressed

It is incredibly difficult to find a wrong way to criticize Jeffrey Epstein, but hot damn, Fox News hosts managed to find one.

Imagine being the magistrate judge who signed off on that warrant, reading this.

Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning

Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.

Scoop: Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine, STAT has learned.
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